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  • Richard in Smithville
    Veteran Member
    • Oct 2006
    • 3014
    • On the TARDIS
    • BT 3100

    #1

    Smart Quiz

    I got this in an email so feel free to argue anything if you wish.

    This is a quiz for people who know everything! I found out in a hurry
    that I didn't. These are not trick questions. They are straight questions
    with straight answers


    1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants
    know the score or the leader until the contest ends.


    2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?


    3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for
    several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted
    every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?


    4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?


    5. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear
    inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is
    genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get
    inside the bottle?


    6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters " dw"
    and they are all common words. Name two of them.


    7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar.
    Can you name at least half of them?


    8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned,
    processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.


    9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with
    the letter "S."


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    Answers To Quiz:


    1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants
    know the score or the leader until the contest ends . . Boxing


    2. North American landmark constantly moving backward . Niagara Falls
    (The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because
    of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.)


    3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for
    several growing seasons . . Asparagus and rhubarb.


    4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside .. . Strawberry.


    5. How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle? It grew inside the
    bottle. (The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small,
    and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place
    for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are
    snipped off at the stems.)


    6. Three English words beginning with dw . Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.


    7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar . . Period, comma,
    colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark,
    exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces,
    and ellipses.


    8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed,
    cooked, or in any other form but fresh Lettuce.


    9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with "s".
    Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes,
    stockings, stilts.
    From the "deep south" part of Canada

    Richard in Smithville

    http://richardspensandthings.blogspot.com/
  • MilDoc

    #2
    OK, only got 3-4-5-8 correct. 44%. Not so good...

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    • JoeyGee
      Veteran Member
      • Nov 2005
      • 1509
      • Sylvania, OH, USA.
      • BT3100-1

      #3
      4, 5, 7, 9...not so good for me either.
      Joe

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      • Russianwolf
        Veteran Member
        • Jan 2004
        • 3152
        • Martinsburg, WV, USA.
        • One of them there Toy saws

        #4
        4,6,7,9 for me.

        on number one. UFC would fall into that also since the "scoring" is nearly identical. One could also argue that you can know who the leader is in some fights.
        Mike
        Lakota's Dad

        If at first you don't succeed, deny you were trying in the first place.

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        • crokett
          The Full Monte
          • Jan 2003
          • 10627
          • Mebane, NC, USA.
          • Ryobi BT3000

          #5
          Got 'em all but then I've seen it before.
          David

          The chief cause of failure in this life is giving up what you want most for what you want at the moment.

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          • LYU370
            Established Member
            • Mar 2005
            • 215
            • Streamwood, IL.

            #6
            2 4 5 7 9 for me. Although I will argue that horseradish should be added to number 3. I had it planted for a while and it took me YEARS to kill the thing off, it just kept coming back and coming back no matter what I did.
            Andy

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            • Slik Geek
              Senior Member
              • Dec 2006
              • 706
              • Lake County, Illinois
              • Ryobi BT-3000

              #7
              I got #1 wrong, and only half correct on #3 and #6. (I guessed chives and dweeb... so maybe I didn't do too bad on those).

              For #1, I guessed golf, because even though one can know the individual scores at any point in time, all participants are at different points on the course so the actual score is really not known until everyone gets to the same point - the finish. (I know it is a lame argument).

              Isn't there scoring in boxing - such that if there isn't a knockout, a winner can be determined? Is that score not revealed during the fight?

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              • scorrpio
                Veteran Member
                • Dec 2005
                • 1566
                • Wayne, NJ, USA.

                #8
                1. You could consider chess being like that as well. Sure, there are strong and weak positions (just like in boxing, you can see if one guy is clearly plastering the other), but in the end, a checkmate can be done with just two pieces.

                2. EVERY waterfall is always moving backwards. Especially large ones.

                3. Only two?

                4. got it.

                5. got it.

                6. dwell and dwarf are ones I recalled.

                7. I stopped recalling at period, comma, colon, ellipses, semicolon, apostrophe, question, exclamation.

                8. Canned lettuce.

                9. shoes, socks, slippers, sandals, sneakers, skates were my choices.

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                • mater
                  Veteran Member
                  • Jan 2004
                  • 4197
                  • SC, USA.

                  #9
                  Originally posted by JoeyGee
                  4, 5, 7, 9...not so good for me either.
                  Add me to the list.
                  Ken aka "mater"

                  " People may doubt what you say but they will never doubt what you do "

                  Ken's Den

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                  • Tom Miller
                    Veteran Member
                    • Mar 2003
                    • 2507
                    • Twin Cities, MN
                    • BT3000 - Cuttin' it old school

                    #10
                    8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned,
                    processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.


                    Wouldn't watermelon be a fruit that is only sold fresh?

                    Regards,
                    Tom

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                    • jziegler
                      Veteran Member
                      • Aug 2005
                      • 1149
                      • Salem, NJ, USA.
                      • Ryobi BT3100

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Tom Miller
                      8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned,
                      processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.


                      Wouldn't watermelon be a fruit that is only sold fresh?

                      Regards,
                      Tom
                      Watermelon is sometimes sold as juice in juice blends, I think.

                      For the perennial vegetables, many of those are root vegetables, so you dig up the root and need to plant a new one the next year, but that makes it a trick question. Most herbs are perennials, chives are an herb, not a vegetable, which seems to be a distinction the question cares about.

                      I've seen this before, but still didn't keep score or do all that well.

                      Jim

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                      • L. D. Jeffries
                        Senior Member
                        • Dec 2005
                        • 747
                        • Russell, NY, USA.
                        • Ryobi BT3000

                        #12
                        Only two words in the English tongue have a double "U". One is "vacuum, whats the other? And no, I am NOT going to give the answer....right now.
                        RuffSawn
                        Nothin' smells better than fresh sawdust!

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                        • Tom Miller
                          Veteran Member
                          • Mar 2003
                          • 2507
                          • Twin Cities, MN
                          • BT3000 - Cuttin' it old school

                          #13
                          Originally posted by L. D. Jeffries
                          Only two words in the English tongue have a double "U". One is "vacuum, whats the other? And no, I am NOT going to give the answer....right now.
                          Uuhhh....




                          Wait, that's it!!!

                          Regards,
                          Tom

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